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Les difficiles premiers pas de l’ordinateur à l’école. Recevez nos newsletters : Les élèves apprécient, les parents aussi, mais les professeurs montrent quelques réticences.

Les difficiles premiers pas de l’ordinateur à l’école

Une vaste étude de l’Inspection générale de l’Éducation nationale souligne que l’outil est très inégalement utilisé selon les matières enseignées. Il s’agit de l’opération la plus importante en France menée sur la relation, pas aussi simple qu’on pourrait le croire, entre l’ordinateur, l’enfant et ses professeurs. Le plan «un collégien, un ordinateur portable» constitue «indéniablement une réussite», affirme l’Inspection générale de l’Éducation nationale (Igen) dans un rapport évaluant cette campagne - la plus ancienne et la plus importante du genre - lancée en 2001 par le conseil général des Landes. Sur le plan quantitatif, elle a certes permis à 51.000 collégiens de bénéficier d’un ordinateur portable, pour un budget total de 52 millions d’euros.

Equal Access to the Digital World! What does it mean to provide "equal access to the digital world"?

Equal Access to the Digital World!

In a perfect world, every student would have access to a computer at home, be able to utilize the latest technology in the classroom, and their schools would be able to support all the technology that was being used. In our reality though, not every student has a computer or internet access at home, schools may be under equipped with computers, and underfunded so that the latest and greatest technology isn't available to students. Even further, it is known that students who live in poorer districts where the schools are made up of mostly minority students, schools are the primary source of computer and internet access as it is far less likely that these students will be able to have these at home. How can you provide equal access to the digital world to all learners?

How can you provide equal access to the digital world to all learners?

How can you provide equal access to the digital world to all learners?

You can't. Plain and simple. What you as an educator can control is the provision of equal access within the classroom environment, and can attempt to ensure that those who do not have equal access to the digital world at home are not at too much of a disadvantage for it. They are still going to be at a disadvantage- make no mistake about that- but by catering to your less digitally endowed students needs you can attempt to make this disadvantage as minimal as possible. Within the classroom setting it's easy, it's totally in your control. Equal Access to the Digital World. The law states that all students have the right to a free and appropriate education.

Equal Access to the Digital World

All children learn at different rates and in different ways. By providing all children equal access to technology we, as educators, will be helping to meet the diverse needs of all students. The Digital Divide: Where We Are. A status report on the digital divide from 2002.

The Digital Divide: Where We Are

Credit: George Abe Editor's Note: While much of the information in this article is no longer current, it remains an interesting snapshot of our ideas about the digital divide in 2002. For more current information, visit our Digital Divide Resource Roundup. Digital Divide - ICT Information Communications Technology - 50x15 Initiative. The Digital Divide, or the digital split, is a social issue referring to the differing amount of information between those who have access to the Internet (specially broadband access) and those who do not have access.

Digital Divide - ICT Information Communications Technology - 50x15 Initiative

The term became popular among concerned parties, such as scholars, policy makers, and advocacy groups, in the late 1990s. On the Wrong Side of the Digital Divide. Login | Viewpoint On the Wrong Side of the Digital Divide For the good of the nation and our students, the US needs better broadband.

On the Wrong Side of the Digital Divide

The digital divide in this country is real. I should know because I'm on the wrong side of it. I live in a rural county on Virginia's Eastern Shore where cable access is, literally, a pipe dream for many residents. I dropped out of a Spanish MOOC because the video-intensive course materials were going to cost more in data fees than a round-trip ticket to Barcelona. Yet that is exactly the situation facing millions of Americans. It's a crisis not lost on Tim Kirk, CIO of South Arkansas Community College, who is trying to persuade service providers and local leaders of the fundamental need for broadband in his rural region (read "Showcasing the Importance of Broadband" in our October issue). The Failure of One Laptop Per Child. "25 million laptops later," Mashable announced today, "One Laptop Per Child doesn't increase test scores.

" "Error Message," reads the headline from The Economist: "A disappointing return from an investment in computing. " The tenor of these stories feels like a grand "Gotcha! " for ed-tech: It's shiny stuff, sure, but it offers no measurable gains in "student achievement. " So while the OLPC project might have been a good idea, so the story goes, it is not a good investment. One Laptop Per Child was a good idea, a noble and ambitious one at that. Arguably more significant than the competition OLPC faces from these low-cost tablets and netbooks: 95% of the world's population now owns a cellphone, by some estimates (See Wikipedia's list of mobile phone penetration, broken down by country). The mission of the non-profit organization always stressed something broader, bigger -- One Laptop per Child meant empowerment, engagement, and education: Oh right.

But is that failure? Photo credits: OLPC.